Posts Tagged ‘Dream of Gerontius’

"It is barbaric to write poetry after Auschwitz" wrote Theodore Adorno; and George Steiner went further when he spoke of the death of the German language after Nazism. Understandable hyperbole …...
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Is the idea of the free-spirited artist a myth? Does religious thought liberate or shackle the imagination? Today, do we treat "faith" as something of a dirty word when it comes to music and the arts?...
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Someone asked a while ago on this blog whether it made a difference to a performer if he or she 'believed' the words they were singing. It is a fascinating question and the issues are complex. We can ...
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The First and Last Nights of the BBC Proms have become the artistic bookends of London’s summer life. The First Night begins in the shadow of Wimbledon’s last serve; the Last as the deckchairs a...
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